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The orion belt star ????????/?
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The three bright stars that make up the well known asterism, Orion's belt, are Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. Astronomically speaking, all three of these stars are great distances apart from each other in space.Unfortunately, I'm not so sure in numbers how far each star is apart. I can tell you though the distance of Alnitak from Sol (The Sun) is about 795 light years away. I'm not too dubious about the other two stars. And Sirius is not associated with the Orion constellation. It is associated with the constellation Canis Major. In latin meaning the great or big dog. This constellation can be found a few degrees to the far bottom left below the Orion constellation.
There are three stars in Orion's belt and they are at three different distances from Earth - they aren't actually next to each other, they just look like it from our place in the galaxy. Yes, they have names. I think one of them is Mintaka. Try wikipedia; it's all there. Sirius is not in Orion's belt; it's not even in Orion. It's part of Canis Major.
They are called Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka
The proximity of the three stars in the sky is an illusion. In fact, the stars at either end of the Belt, Alnitak and Mintaka, are the closest together in space, Alnitak being a little over 800 light-years away from EARTH, and Mintaka 100 light-years farther off. The central star, Alnilam, is much more distant than either of these, lying on the edge of the Orion Molecular Cloud, more than 1,300 light-years from the Sun. Alnilam is also easily the most massive and luminous of the three stars, so that despite its greater distance it still shines more brightly than its two companions.
Not sure about the distance between eac other
hope i helped
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The proximity of the three stars in the sky is an illusion. In fact, the stars at either end of the Belt, Alnitak and Mintaka, are the closest together in space, Alnitak being a little over 800 light-years away from EARTH, and Mintaka 100 light-years farther off. The central star, Alnilam, is much more distant than either of these, lying on the edge of the Orion Molecular Cloud, more than 1,300 light-years from the Sun. Alnilam is also easily the most massive and luminous of the three stars, so that despite its greater distance it still shines more brightly than its two companions.
Not sure about the distance between eac other
hope i helped
xxxx
The three bright stars that make up the well known asterism, Orion's belt, are Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. Astronomically speaking, all three of these stars are great distances apart from each other in space.Unfortunately, I'm not so sure in numbers how far each star is apart. I can tell you though the distance of Alnitak from Sol (The Sun) is about 795 light years away. I'm not too dubious about the other two stars. And Sirius is not associated with the Orion constellation. It is associated with the constellation Canis Major. In latin meaning the great or big dog. This constellation can be found a few degrees to the far bottom left below the Orion constellation.
popovoleg70
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Gravitational distances are equal from Earth.Each star so so together in that case.